Path: utzoo!utgpu!jarvis.csri.toronto.edu!mailrus!uunet!wuarchive!uwm.edu!rutgers!aramis.rutgers.edu!athos.rutgers.edu!christian From: car@cblpn.att.com (Clarissa A Brower) Newsgroups: soc.religion.christian Subject: Re: Strangers in a Strange World Message-ID: Date: 1 Jan 90 15:51:54 GMT Sender: hedrick@athos.rutgers.edu Organization: AT&T Bell Laboratories Lines: 22 Approved: christian@aramis.rutgers.edu In article , bnr-fos!bmers58!davem@watmath.waterloo.edu (Dave Mielke) writes: > While we are certainly doing everything we possibly can to involve > ourselves in the physical act that God uses to cause us to be fruitful > and multiply, we are doing our utmost to avoid the results that God > would have that act yield. Our use of contraceptive measures has far > exceeded epidemic porportions! More stuff deleted about how contraceptive use is unscriptural . . . For a good scriptural defense of contraception read the book, "The Act of Marriage" by Tim and Beverly LaHaye. I won't repeat their defense here, but I will point one other thing out. If God truly wanted us to not have sex if children were not a possible outcome, there would have been a statement in the Old Testament forbidding a woman past the age of menopause to have sexual intercouse. No such statement exists. C. Brower AT&T-NS -I don't speak for AT&T